The Gen Con Writers’ Symposium is a genuine community of writers helping writers. In addition to our sponsors, there are many examples of attendees, volunteers, and author guests contributing to help our event broaden in scope and accessibility.

With our expanded programming this year we needed additional projectors and screens to accommodate smaller, more hands-on workshops. Our past guests, well-known authors Elizabeth Bear and Scott Lynch, heard our need and donated them! We are grateful for their support and are glad it will enable a wider range of workshops, now and in future years. Thanks!

Elizabeth Bear

Elizabeth Bear is the Hugo, Sturgeon, Locus, and Astounding Award winning author of dozens of novels; over a hundred short stories; and a number of essays, nonfiction, and opinion pieces for markets as diverse as Popular Mechanics and The Washington Post. She lives in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts with her spouse, writer Scott Lynch. 

Elizabeth is a frequent contributor to the Center for Science and the Imagination at ASU, and has spoken on futurism at Google, MIT, DARPA’s 100 Year Starship Project, and the White House, among others.

Scott Lynch

I was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on April 2, 1978, the first of three brothers. I spent all of my early life in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. In 2004, I moved to eastern Wisconsin, and in 2016 I moved to my current residence in Massachusetts.

The Lies of Locke Lamora, my first novel, was bought by Simon Spanton at Orion Books in August, 2004 and published in June, 2006. Prior to that I had just about every job you usually see in this sort of author bio– dishwasher, busboy, waiter, web designer, office manager, prep cook, and freelance writer. My second novel, Red Seas Under Red Skies, was published in 2007, and my third, The Republic of Thieves, was published in 2013. They, together with the forthcoming The Thorn of Emberlain and its sequels, comprise the Gentleman Bastard Sequence.

In October of 2016 I married my wife, noted SF/F novelist Elizabeth Bear. We live together in an eccentric old house with three cats (Duncan, Gurney, and Molly) not far from the stable where we keep our horse, a beautiful but moderately ridiculous Icelandic gelding named Ormr.